$1· Occupational First Aid Refresher Course
Course Content:
This one day refresher course will cover:
$1· First Aid in the Workplace
$1· Cardiac First Response
$1· Patient Assessment
$1· Respiratory Emergencies
$1· Wounds & Bleeding
$1· Altered Levels of Consciousness
$1· Musculoskeletal Injuries
$1· Burns, Scalds, Chemicals, Electric Shock
Assessment & Certification: There is no examination at the end of the day, the tutor will be observing the practical’s throughout the day and assisting anyone with any difficulties. The Certificate for Refreshers last for two years, the certificate come from the Emergency Services Training Institure and is added to the FETAC award to confirm continuing certification. You don’t receive another FETAC certificate.
Cost: €80 (Usual cost €100)
Venue: The Space, Áras na Mac Léinn
Time: 9am-5.30pm
Dates: Fri 30th October 2015
- Manual Handling Training Course – COURSE FULL 25/08/15
Course Aim:
To provide you with the information and training necessary to be competent in Manual Handling, in order to avoid injury to yourself and to others. The Course Provider is The Emergency Services Training Institute.
Course Objectives:
On completion of this course, participants will be able to:
Define Manual Handling.
State relevant Irish and EU Legislation.
Describe the basic Anatomy of the Spine.
Utilise correctly the 8 Principles of Safe Lifting.
Course Programme:
Manual Handling Legislation – as it applies to the employer
and employee.
Dangers and harm caused by careless / unskilled methods of manual handling.
Principles of levers and laws of motion.
Anatomy of the spine and muscular system.
How to handle loads safely.
Practice in safe handling of loads.
Assessment & Certification:
To receive certification for Manual Handling all participants must successfully complete a theory quiz and a practical lifting assessment. The certification is valid for 2 years from the date of training.
Course Attendance: Maximum of 10 participants per instructor.
Cost: €30 (Usual cost €50)
Venue: The View, upstairs in Áras na Mac Léinn
Dates: 9am – 1.30pm Wednesday 26th August 2015
8th September 2017
We are not currently offering Irish Classes.
Please contact:
Roinn na Gaeilge OÉ Gaillimh: https://www.nuigalway.ie/gaeilge/
Áras na nGael: https://www.arasnangael.ie/
or
Cumann Gaelach: https://socs.nuigalway.ie/societies.php?id=MzI=
Child Protection Training
Course Description: The content is awareness level and covers topics relevant to staff and volunteers working directly with children and young people.
It covers policy, legislation, attitudes and values, definitions and signs of abuse, safe recruitment, code of behaviour and scenarios.
Course Audience: Staff and volunteers working directly with children and young people.
Assessment/Certification: Certification is based on attendance pf the programme and it is certified by the National Youth Council of Ireland.
Sign Up: In the SU Office or by credit card on 091 493570
Date/Time: 1pm-5pm Friday 13th November or 9.30am-1.30pm Saturday 14th November 2015
Course Venue: The View upstairs in Áras na Mac Léinn
Cost: €15
Max Number Students: 20
Brought to you by NUI Galway Students’ Union, ALIVE and the National Youth Council of Ireland.
Ashtanga Yoga
The next SU 8 week yoga course with Marese Cregg is on Thursday 9th June – Thursday 28th July 2016. The course cost is €40 for 8 weeks.
- 6pm-7.30pm Beginners/Improvers
- 7.30pm-9pm Intermediate
The Course venue is The Space upstairs in Áras na Mac Léinn
Directions to The Space: As you come in the main doors of Áras na Mac Léinn take the stairs on the left, turn left at the top, go through the glass doors and down the steps – The Space is the last room on the left.
Yoga mats and belts are provided. Open to NUI Galway students and staff only.
Personal Safety and Awareness Course
We will soon be enrolling students for our Personal Safety and Awareness course for 2015.
Cost of the course :€5 and you can sign up now in the Students’ Union Office Mon-Fri 10am-5pm or phone 091 493570 to pay by Credit Card.
Course Aim/objectives: To instil a focused and active sense of personal safety and awareness of dangers in the course participants and point them towards further help and education. This course is being run by Dave King of the SU Security Team in conjunction with the Gardaí and other experts.
Course Date/Time: 1pm-6pm Thursday 24th September
Course Venue: The View, upstairs in Áras na Mac Léinn
Part 1: Introduction and course outline
Definition of awareness within the personal safety milieu.
‘Self-defence’ vs ‘personal awareness’
Ineffectiveness of most physical techniques.
The adrenal response.
The predator outline.
Importance of reporting
Physical skills
Garda Briefing
Revision, Q&A, and feedback.
Part 2: Awareness and its relationship to personal safety.
Situational awareness and the ‘360 mind-set’
Watching your ‘6’
Visualising your journey/local knowledge.
Threat recognition/trusting your instincts.
Mobiles: Pros and cons
Alcohol.
Break
Part 3: The Predator outline and the Adrenal response
Predator/Assailant preplanning and visualisation.
Predator escalation and the importance of reporting.
The percentage game (minimising/maximising your safety at all times)
The Adrenal response, physical, emotional and psychological.
Ineffectiveness of most complex physical techniques within an adrenalized situation.
Avoiding becoming a ‘target of opportunity’.
Part 4: Garda Briefing
TBC, but in our conversation beforehand we discussed the importance of people knowing the legal definitions of assault, harassment, intimidation etc. And a stressing of the early reporting of situations and using the Gardaí as a community resource rather than a call of last resort.
Part 5: Physical Skills.
A re-stressing of the legal terms defined earlier by the Garda and a re-stressing of the facts that complicated physical techniques tend towards the ineffective.
High percentage and low percentage moves.
Basic grab evasion.
The essentialities of escape.
How to strike.
You can sell your old textbooks through the Students’ Union bookshop by dropping the books you wish to sell in to the Students’ Union office. You set the price at which you want to sell the books and the Students’ Union take a €2 administrative charge for each book sold.
Note: We ask that all books are priced lower than the original cost !!
We currently have a large stock of certain books and unfortunately we cannot take anymore in. Please click below to view the list of books which we can no longer accept.
BOOKS WE CAN’T TAKE (We have too many, they’re old copies, they’re off the curriculum)- Updated Sept 2015
If the books have not sold by the end of the academic year you can choose to have them returned to you or alternatively they can be donated to charity.
Please note that books without an ISBN code cannot be accepted by the bookshop.
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